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Note also that x | drn − drn | < ε < 1/2. As a consequence, one cannot strongly amalgamate two copies of Yn ∪ {x} by gluing the two copies of Yn together while working with distances in ω only. 3. URYSOHN SPACES 27 Indeed, assume that Yn ∪ {x, x } is such an amalgam. Then x−x x + x < 1. The same argument also exhibits a negative amalgamation property for most of the classes SS when S = {k/m : k ∈ {1, . . , 2m}}. Namely, it shows that that there is M ∈ ω such that for every integer m M , the class SS does not have the strong amalgamation property.